See, here's the problem: it's the religious nuts that won't leave the rest of us alone, not the other way around.
All we want to do is teach science in science class and teach religion in church - where they both belong. But is that good enough for you? Of course not. You need to make up some bogus theory to get religion in my science class in a ridiculous attempt to blur the line between science and faith.
I'm wondering what the hell is going on? Is it just a political hot potato and./'ers are simply venting here?
The bible-thumbers are feeling persecuted, again. (Amazing that a WASP could feel persecuted, isn't it?) It happens every so often. I don't know if you're old enough to remember Reagan's presidency, but then, it was abortion and porn. Now, it's evolution and the "War on Christmas". I imagine, in the 2020-2030 time frame, it'll be something else.
I'd like to say "just ignore them", but they can really make some progress, if allowed to work unchecked.
It would be scary to think that all the geeks around me actually believe in religion.
It's not just any religion that's a problem. Nearly all the people I work with are religious (including me) and I don't have a problem with that. It's the evangelical, creationist types, who believe everyone must be converted, that really scare me. We have a few of those here, too.
That certainly isn't the way they're using it. Here's something from another web site:
-- No tell warrant executed on my home. Phones tapped. Friend in the FBI told me 2 years later.
The crime? My wife grabbed the backpack of a Saudi guy she worked with (who was flying home into NY on 9/11 - so he was under surveliance). The FBI thought she might have taken somethign from his bag. --
What I want it know is: what's so great about Digg, compared to Slashdot? I haven't been reading Digg all that long, yet, but I don't think I'll ever get used to their non-threaded comments. Granted, Digg has some better articles, but Slashdot is so much more interactive, simply because they encourage that.
Wow, if I didn't know better, I'd swear I had written this myself.
At the company I work for, we also bill everything by the hour and our time-logging software is the bane of my existence. It was hacked together, in house, by several of our employees. You'd think it would at least have all the billing options we need, but it doesn't, and the user interface is just ridiculous. (Of course, I imagine that has at least a little to do with the fact that it was written in Databus, the worst programming language ever designed. Never heard of it? Neither had I.) Every month, I have to argue with my management about my time and, every month, my management has to argue with our customers.
Personally, I don't think we should even be billing by the hour. We're a software company and we should have the standard flat-rate support contracts, like a real software company.
Anyway, I'd love to hear about time-logging software, too. Pretty much anything would be an improvement.
It's the media - making money is their raison d'etre.
I agree, but I find it very difficult to believe that anything they currently show could bring in more advertising money than Screen Savers or the tech news show right after it, when it was on TechTV. If G4TV does bring in more money now, we really need to give up all faith in this country. I mean, honestly, whose idea was it to have a beauty pageant with video game characters. Are we really that sad?
I don't know about the rest of the people here but, when my company talks about "going with something real", they're asking whether we should stay with Fedora or go to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
For the most part, I agree with you. AJAX/Flash/whatever really is stupid on sites that don't need it. However, there are plenty of applications for which web access is really useful, but any sort of a reload - or even touching the mouse - is disasterous.
My company has an application that processes health insurance claims. In the past, we used to install systems at the customer site. Now, we're working toward the goal of having only one system (or cluster), located at our site, that everyone accesses remotely. People can work from anywhere in the world, use less office space, use less gas for commuting, etc., and all you need to use it is a standard web browser. At the moment, we have to install client software on every PC.
Claims entry is done mostly by hand and the people who have been doing it for a while are unbelievably fast, but only because they can enter an entire claim without touching the mouse. If they did have to touch the mouse even once, they'd at least double their entry time. Since our customers can gain or lose millions of dollars a year on that time, it's important.
I think it's applications like these that will benefit most from things like AJAX and Web 2.0, assuming it's not a lot of hype.
What are christians going to give up computers because a chip maker sponsored the right side of the debate? Not after what the Vatican just said.
Sorry, but many (probably a majority) of the people who believe in ID don't believe Catholics are Christian. Most likely, your URL means nothing to them. (Don't ask me why. That's just what I've noticed, following this debate.)
68 per cent longer to implement new business requirements
I think they're also ignoring the fact that those "business requirements" are nearly always expressed in Windows terms. They always need to read Office documents, connect to an Exchange server, provide file service to Windows clients, etc., and MicroSoft goes out of their way to make that difficult. How often do Windows administrators worry about connecting to Unix?
If I could set up a network without considering MicroSoft at all, it would take a lot less time.
Only on slashdot could trash like the parent be modded +4 Insightful.
Why? It's entirely true. I'm sure I can dig up some URLs to prove it, if you want.
There's no other reason why anyone should reject the domain. If you required all porn sites to stay within the "xxx" domain, it would certainly make it a lot easier to filter stuff for your kids.
I don't know where you work, but I (and I'm sure many other people here) don't really have that option. I'm never given enough information to give a reasonably accurate quote, so I always quote twice as much time as I'd need if everything I can think of went wrong. My management nearly always gets upset because "that's completely unreasonable," etc. Then they beat me down until I have no choice but to say I'll do it within their constraints.
When I'm finally finished, it has taken at least as much time as I initially said and everyone's angry.
Sorry, but I have to blame that on my employer.
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Sorry to reply to my own post, but I just checked and ftp.uu.net is still running, too. That was a big FTP site, back in the day.
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Give me a specific...
How about prep.ai.mit.edu? I can remember using it back as far as 1987, and - wait, let me check - yup, it's still running.
Sorry, have to disagree with you on this one, or rather, have to rant that the need for this command is possibly the dumbest thing Unix has to offer. "Let's do globbing in the shell and, to make things even more difficult, let's give the command line a finite (and small) length." Don't get me wrong, I love Unix, but it's not perfect, but globbing in the shell/small command line/xargs is on my top 10 list of pet peeves.
How would I have done it? Use a pipe! Possibly one of Unix's most important contributions to the OS world and it gets wasted...
I wonder if it has occurred to any game developers that, if they supported Linux, they'd have the widest possible hardware support - PCs, Macs, Xbox, portables, even some of the big iron. All they'd need to do is recompile.
At the company where I work, we are required to change our Windows password every 8 weeks and the password to get into the financial software every 3 months.
Okay, I have to ask: does anyone really still think changing your password regularly is useful? These days, when someone hacks into your system, the first thing they usually do is set up a back door, so if you change it, they can still get in. IMO, requiring frequent password changes actually hurts security, because users are more likely to write them down and keep them where other people can find them.
Think of a good password, remember it, and don't change it, unless there's a good reason.
The fact that you can try almost all Linux distributions, for free, and decide which one is best for you. If I go out and buy "Windows Vista Basic" and decide I really need "Media Center", can I get my money back on "Basic"?
This is probably just my paranoia talking, but the little tinfoil hat guy on my shoulder is wondering: is one of their objectives on the moon to look around and say "Hey! Where are the Apollo modules? The Americans didn't make it to the moon, after all!"
I wonder if they might even go so far as to destroy any evidence they do find.
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First, I'd have to question whether or not this woman's conclusions are correct. If they are, I'd have to ask if it's just the porn, or the combination of the porn and our (the US) attitude about sex.
Did she interview anyone in more permissive areas, like, say, Europe?
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Why the hell can't you leave me alone?
See, here's the problem: it's the religious nuts that won't leave the rest of us alone, not the other way around.
All we want to do is teach science in science class and teach religion in church - where they both belong. But is that good enough for you? Of course not. You need to make up some bogus theory to get religion in my science class in a ridiculous attempt to blur the line between science and faith.
I'm wondering what the hell is going on? Is it just a political hot potato and ./'ers are simply venting here?
The bible-thumbers are feeling persecuted, again. (Amazing that a WASP could feel persecuted, isn't it?) It happens every so often. I don't know if you're old enough to remember Reagan's presidency, but then, it was abortion and porn. Now, it's evolution and the "War on Christmas". I imagine, in the 2020-2030 time frame, it'll be something else.
I'd like to say "just ignore them", but they can really make some progress, if allowed to work unchecked.
It would be scary to think that all the geeks around me actually believe in religion.
It's not just any religion that's a problem. Nearly all the people I work with are religious (including me) and I don't have a problem with that. It's the evangelical, creationist types, who believe everyone must be converted, that really scare me. We have a few of those here, too.
That certainly isn't the way they're using it. Here's something from another web site:
--
No tell warrant executed on my home. Phones tapped. Friend in the FBI told me 2 years later.
The crime? My wife grabbed the backpack of a Saudi guy she worked with (who was flying home into NY on 9/11 - so he was under surveliance). The FBI thought she might have taken somethign from his bag.
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Yeah, that sounds pretty limited to me.
What I want it know is: what's so great about Digg, compared to Slashdot? I haven't been reading Digg all that long, yet, but I don't think I'll ever get used to their non-threaded comments. Granted, Digg has some better articles, but Slashdot is so much more interactive, simply because they encourage that.
Wow, if I didn't know better, I'd swear I had written this myself.
At the company I work for, we also bill everything by the hour and our time-logging software is the bane of my existence. It was hacked together, in house, by several of our employees. You'd think it would at least have all the billing options we need, but it doesn't, and the user interface is just ridiculous. (Of course, I imagine that has at least a little to do with the fact that it was written in Databus, the worst programming language ever designed. Never heard of it? Neither had I.) Every month, I have to argue with my management about my time and, every month, my management has to argue with our customers.
Personally, I don't think we should even be billing by the hour. We're a software company and we should have the standard flat-rate support contracts, like a real software company.
Anyway, I'd love to hear about time-logging software, too. Pretty much anything would be an improvement.
It's the media - making money is their raison d'etre.
I agree, but I find it very difficult to believe that anything they currently show could bring in more advertising money than Screen Savers or the tech news show right after it, when it was on TechTV. If G4TV does bring in more money now, we really need to give up all faith in this country. I mean, honestly, whose idea was it to have a beauty pageant with video game characters. Are we really that sad?
Just one minor point, here:
The CLR affords far better platform specific integration than Java. JNI is complicated and horrible.
I imagine it will always be easier to have "better platform-specific integration" when you only support one platform...
I don't know about the rest of the people here but, when my company talks about "going with something real", they're asking whether we should stay with Fedora or go to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
For the most part, I agree with you. AJAX/Flash/whatever really is stupid on sites that don't need it. However, there are plenty of applications for which web access is really useful, but any sort of a reload - or even touching the mouse - is disasterous.
My company has an application that processes health insurance claims. In the past, we used to install systems at the customer site. Now, we're working toward the goal of having only one system (or cluster), located at our site, that everyone accesses remotely. People can work from anywhere in the world, use less office space, use less gas for commuting, etc., and all you need to use it is a standard web browser. At the moment, we have to install client software on every PC.
Claims entry is done mostly by hand and the people who have been doing it for a while are unbelievably fast, but only because they can enter an entire claim without touching the mouse. If they did have to touch the mouse even once, they'd at least double their entry time. Since our customers can gain or lose millions of dollars a year on that time, it's important.
I think it's applications like these that will benefit most from things like AJAX and Web 2.0, assuming it's not a lot of hype.
What are christians going to give up computers because a chip maker sponsored the right side of the debate? Not after what the Vatican just said.
Sorry, but many (probably a majority) of the people who believe in ID don't believe Catholics are Christian. Most likely, your URL means nothing to them. (Don't ask me why. That's just what I've noticed, following this debate.)
68 per cent longer to implement new business requirements
I think they're also ignoring the fact that those "business requirements" are nearly always expressed in Windows terms. They always need to read Office documents, connect to an Exchange server, provide file service to Windows clients, etc., and MicroSoft goes out of their way to make that difficult. How often do Windows administrators worry about connecting to Unix?
If I could set up a network without considering MicroSoft at all, it would take a lot less time.
My favorite was always "Leather Goddesses of Phobos". You just can't beat a game that comes with its own 3D comic and scratch-n-sniff card.
This article made me all misty-eyed. My very first Unix machine was an IRIS 3130.
Only on slashdot could trash like the parent be modded +4 Insightful.
Why? It's entirely true. I'm sure I can dig up some URLs to prove it, if you want.
There's no other reason why anyone should reject the domain. If you required all porn sites to stay within the "xxx" domain, it would certainly make it a lot easier to filter stuff for your kids.
I don't know where you work, but I (and I'm sure many other people here) don't really have that option. I'm never given enough information to give a reasonably accurate quote, so I always quote twice as much time as I'd need if everything I can think of went wrong. My management nearly always gets upset because "that's completely unreasonable," etc. Then they beat me down until I have no choice but to say I'll do it within their constraints.
When I'm finally finished, it has taken at least as much time as I initially said and everyone's angry.
Sorry, but I have to blame that on my employer.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I just checked and ftp.uu.net is still running, too. That was a big FTP site, back in the day.
Give me a specific...
How about prep.ai.mit.edu? I can remember using it back as far as 1987, and - wait, let me check - yup, it's still running.
Umm, no, xargs is STUPID.
See my comment about it, above.
xargs
Sorry, have to disagree with you on this one, or rather, have to rant that the need for this command is possibly the dumbest thing Unix has to offer. "Let's do globbing in the shell and, to make things even more difficult, let's give the command line a finite (and small) length." Don't get me wrong, I love Unix, but it's not perfect, but globbing in the shell/small command line/xargs is on my top 10 list of pet peeves.
How would I have done it? Use a pipe! Possibly one of Unix's most important contributions to the OS world and it gets wasted...
I wonder if it has occurred to any game developers that, if they supported Linux, they'd have the widest possible hardware support - PCs, Macs, Xbox, portables, even some of the big iron. All they'd need to do is recompile.
At the company where I work, we are required to change our Windows password every 8 weeks and the password to get into the financial software every 3 months.
Okay, I have to ask: does anyone really still think changing your password regularly is useful? These days, when someone hacks into your system, the first thing they usually do is set up a back door, so if you change it, they can still get in. IMO, requiring frequent password changes actually hurts security, because users are more likely to write them down and keep them where other people can find them.
Think of a good password, remember it, and don't change it, unless there's a good reason.
What am I not getting here?
The fact that you can try almost all Linux distributions, for free, and decide which one is best for you. If I go out and buy "Windows Vista Basic" and decide I really need "Media Center", can I get my money back on "Basic"?
Doubt it...
Actually, when you think about it, this is exactly why Microsoft has a monopoly.
"Why can't I play this game on my Mac, as well as your Windows machine? Aren't they both computers?"
This is probably just my paranoia talking, but the little tinfoil hat guy on my shoulder is wondering: is one of their objectives on the moon to look around and say "Hey! Where are the Apollo modules? The Americans didn't make it to the moon, after all!"
I wonder if they might even go so far as to destroy any evidence they do find.
First, I'd have to question whether or not this woman's conclusions are correct. If they are, I'd have to ask if it's just the porn, or the combination of the porn and our (the US) attitude about sex.
Did she interview anyone in more permissive areas, like, say, Europe?